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Curated culinary experiences across British Columbia with a focus on the Fraser Valley and Vancouver Island. Private groups and special gatherings welcome.

Local kitchens, shared tables, and the people who shape place. *We are a 100% BC owned company
*We support local producers, bakers, farmers, chefs, vintners & brewers
*We work with Economic Development, BIA's, Tourism Boards and Destination Marketers to curate customized tours to highlight your community
*Real Estate Agents or corporations: we offer you custom team building experiences or hospitality gifts.
*FAM & media hosting services available.
*Collaborating with Chefs across Canada to curate "With The Chef" experiences-reach out to us! DM for more info.

10/31/2026

Funny thing about running food tours. My favourite photos are rarely of the food.

At Grounds & Greens, a question turns into a conversation that nobody seems in a hurry to finish. At Little White House, four women raise their glasses and share a laugh.

I have hundreds of food photos (probably thousands, actually). But these are the ones love!!

A little glimpse of Fort Langley through Chew On This Tasty Tours.

10/21/2026

Today is International Chefs Day, and it's also Small Business Week in Canada.

Over the years, these are some of the chefs, farmers, makers and business owners who've welcomed Chew On This guests into their kitchens, cafés, farms and shops.

The ones who take the time to show you what goes into a good cup of coffee. Who cut the pizza while it's still hot. Who carry the tea stand out themselves. Who hand you a box that asks, "You wanna piece of me?" (The box is real.)

Thank you to everyone in this video, and to the many more we couldn't fit:

Surrey: Lynn at Kin Thai · Winston and Rosie at Green Lettuce · Paul and Angela at Kingfisher Farm Market · Karen at Spent Grounds · Chef Ehsan at Afghan Kitchen · Chef Jujhar Mann at Mann & Co. Bakeshop

Chilliwack: Brandon at Smoking Gun Coffee Roasters · Raj at Harvest Cafe · Stephanie at Azzurri Italian Pasticceria

Langley: Chef Sarah Meconse Mierau at Tradish · Jenell at The Pie Hole

Maple Ridge: Chef Roseangela, formerly of Capri

Tofino and Ucluelet: Chef Lisa Ahier · Kim at Chocolate Tofino · Cory at Abbondanza · Tourism Tofino and the Tofino Ucluelet Culinary Guild

Also: Chef Andre at Green Waves · Paola at Salsa and Guacamole

Who's the person behind your favourite local spot? Tell us in the comments, and tag them if you can. This is a good week to let them know.

Photos of Lynn, Winston and Rosie: Discover Surrey Discover Surrey

Smoking Gun Coffee The Pie Hole Afghan Kitchen South Surrey Mann & Co Bakeshop Kin Thai Green Lettuce Surrey Tradish Canada Abbondanza Lisa Ahier Kingfisher Farm Market Harvest store + cafe

10/18/2026

Six years ago, these six women joined us for a tasty tour.

It was 2020. There were masks, distancing rules, and a fair bit of uncertainty about just about everything.

Including whether starting a culinary tourism business in the middle of a pandemic was a particularly good idea.

(Perhaps not the most conventional timing!)

But people came.

They met local business owners, tasted good food, discovered places they hadn't known about, and shared a few hours together.

And they kept coming.

Six years later, Chew On This Tasty Tours has welcomed more than 2,000 guests and worked with over 150 local partners across BC.

Those numbers mean something to me. But what makes me proudest are the businesses we've supported, the stories we've helped share, and the guests who've gone home happy.

I've learned an enormous amount along the way. About running a business, about the communities we visit, and especially about the people who make those communities what they are.

Six years in, we're still welcoming guests, discovering wonderful local businesses, and finding new stories to share.

Looking at this photo, I'm reminded of how much those early guests mattered.

They still do.

Thank you to everyone who has been part of these six years. The guests, guides, makers, chefs, business owners and friends who helped make it possible.

And if you've joined us for a tasty tour somewhere along the way, I'd love to hear what you remember most.

10/13/2026

One of my favourite things about Chew On This is definitely the people.

The conversations between tastings. The relationships that develop. The local business owners who make time for one another, even on busy days.

Here's a photo I captured of Delaine from Into Chocolate and Ben, co-owner of Grounds & Greens, sharing a moment in Fort Langley about a year ago.

It's the people behind these local businesses who give the village so much of its character.

And with our wonderful local host Debbie returning from Australia at the end of October, we're looking forward to more afternoons around the table.

Our hosted Village Table culinary experiences are available throughout November and December, including private group bookings.

09/26/2026

Six years ago today.

Paper cups. Paper masks. Wooden spoons.
And apparently enough optimism to start a food tour company in September 2020.

“Rain or shine, here we go!!” was what I wrote that morning.

I had no idea where we were going.

Since then, Chew On This has taken me into restaurant kitchens, cafés, bakeries, farms and workshops, down city streets, across to Vancouver Island and around more tables than I could count.

What started as a food tour grew in ways I couldn't have pictured that first morning. I worked with Discover Surrey to help bring parts of the Surrey Spice Trail to life, created With the Chef and the chance to bring guests around a table with Chef Vikram Vij. New communities. New guides. Private gatherings built around particular people. Roots & Waves on the West Coast. And, more recently, experiences that don't really feel like tours at all.

But looking through six years of photos, what I notice most isn't the food. It's the people.

The guests who came curious. The guides who made a place feel like theirs to share. The restaurant owners, chefs and makers who welcomed us in. The tourism partners who helped open doors. And all the people who said yes, sometimes before I had entirely figured out what I was asking them to say yes to.

Somewhere along the way, I realized that food was really just how we opened the door.
The good stuff happened after that.

Stories. Laughing. Learning about a place from someone who actually lives there. Sitting around a table long enough for strangers to stop feeling quite so much like strangers.

Six years later, that's the best thing about Chew On This Tasty Tours for me: the people along the way.

To every guest, guide, restaurant, maker, chef, partner, friend and person who has been part of Chew On This, thank you.

09/16/2026

There are jars of dried plants lined up at the head of the table, each with a card sharing some of the properties Chef Sarah Meconse Mierau teaches about.

Some guests follow one of Sarah’s tea recipes. Others choose their own blend.

Then everyone sits down for lunch.

Nene (formerly ROOTED) offers structure, but there is also room. To ask questions. To taste. To talk. To simply spend a little time around the table together.

On Saturday, September 26, Sarah will host Nene in Fort Langley one final time before the experience moves to Vancouver later this fall.

Nene: Indigenous Tea Blending + Lunch Gathering
September 26 | 11:30 am–2:00 pm
Fort Langley National Historic Site
$199 per person

Booking link/info in comments.

09/09/2026

Most first-time guests arrive expecting a food tour.

Before long, the tastings fade into the background. Stories are shared. Questions get asked. Coffee is sipped, not gulped.

This was Brandon at Smoking Gun in downtown Chilliwack with a couple of our guests.

Brandon, and all our other hosts, are Chilliwack.

Our local host Chris, a Chilliwack teacher/librarian, is back in the classroom for the fall, so our guided Chilliwack tasty tours are running weekends only for the next while.

Not a bad way to spend a Saturday this fall.

Weekend dates + booking available through the website and via the link in the comments.

Smoking Gun Coffee District 1881 Tourism Ch'illiwack

09/02/2026

ROOTED is becoming Nene.

The new name comes from Sarah. Nene is a Dene word connected to land, which feels right for a gathering shaped by plants, food, story and time around the table.

The heart of the experience isn’t changing. Sayisi Dene Chef Sarah Meconse Mierau will still lead a small group through tea blending, a seasonal lunch, and the stories and plant knowledge she chooses to share.

But the place is changing.
Later this fall, Nene will begin a new chapter in Vancouver.

Which means September 26 will be our final gathering in Fort Langley.

If you’ve been thinking about joining us there, this is the last one.

Learn more through the link the comments.

08/25/2026

Someone comes to visit and suddenly you’re the tour guide.

Where should we go? What should we eat? What can I show you that actually feels like this place?

I’ve always loved that part of Chew On This.

Food gives us somewhere to start. A coffee, something made down the road, a table where catching up is encouraged. And along the way, visitors get to meet some of the people who make a community what it is.

Chilliwack is especially good for this. There are so many independent places where the person behind what you’re eating is still part of the story.

Sometimes the best way to show someone around is simply to eat your way through it together.

08/19/2026

Sweet, grassy, woody, herbaceous.

Cedar, sage and sweetgrass greet you first.

Ten glass jars run along the table, filled with leaves, petals, berries and bark. Nature’s palette, laid out and waiting.

Rose petals. Elderberry. Goldenrod. Raspberry leaf.

Then Sarah begins.

Chef Sarah Meconse Mierau of Tradish: The Ancestor Café shares the plant knowledge and stories she chooses to bring to the table, while spoons begin moving from jar to jar.

A little more of this. Maybe less of that.

And then another blend.
One to keep. One to give away.
Sarah explains why.

Then lunch arrives.

Plates begin to empty. Conversation stretches a little longer. And the table, which began the afternoon covered in jars and ingredients, has become something else entirely.

Nene returns to Fort Langley on September 26.
A small-group, Indigenous-led culinary gathering with Sarah, built around plants, tea blending, lunch and conversation.

The gathering is intentionally small, with 16 seats around the table. Five seats are already booked.

Details + booking in the first comment.

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Fort Langley, BC

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